As with the atomists and Anaxagoras, one of the main worries for Empedocles is how change is possible, despite the arguments that Parmenides and his followers gave for the impossibility of change. We’ve seen that, in their own ways, the atomists and Anaxagoras sort of agreed with the Eleatics that absolute change can’t happen: nothing comes to be from complete and utter non-being. Rather, what happens is that the things which already exist, whether this
